Celebrities including American singer Curtis Stigers, comedian Bob Mortimer and paralympian Tanni-Grey Thompson took to Twitter to praise the competition.

Stigers, who had a top 10 hit in the early 1990s with 'I Wonder Why', suggested 'Grit Balls o’ Fire' for one of the truck’s names and said the naming campaign had even been mentioned on a radio station in Idaho in the US.

Doncaster Council tweeted to praise him for his entry and said: "You’re very good at this for someone who has never entered a gritter naming contest before."

Curtis Stigers.

Former Shooting Stars host Bob then messaged him to say: "Curtis Stigers has today been tweeting Doncaster Council about their gritting machines, surely that's all you need to know."

Stigers replied: "Thank you Bob for singling out my important work in the gritter tweet industry."